Variable: Income share held by highest 20%

QoG Code: (wdi_incsh20h)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

Income share held by highest 20%. Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles. Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-01-23
Last updated by source: 2023-01-22


Categories:

Public Economy


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 112
Standard time-series: 165
OECD cross-section: 35
OECD time-series: 37


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